Staff and students from UCA Canterbury Kent will be using the artist book as a means of exploring themes located within The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot written partly in Margate in a variety of different forms from books, zines, and pamphlets to sculptural objects running alongside Journeys with ‘The Waste Land’ at Turner Contemporary.

CRATE will become a curatorial space where books made during the research period for Journeys With ‘The Waste Land’ will be put into context with other experimental works being created by the staff and students in response to the poem and will link with events to be hosted at UCA Canterbury. This series of workshops at CRATE during the four-week period from 3rd February to 4th March will show ways of experimenting using artist book making, as a means of interpreting the poem.

The Waste Land poem by T.S. Eliot performed and read by Dr Ian Jones and the presentation of new material generated through the ‘Different Voices’ project by Staff and Students from UCA, and members of the public participating in workshops Saturday 3rd March

This is an independent event organised by members of the public in response to Turner Contemporary's invitation to create an event or activity inspired by The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot's legacy, and Turner Contemporary's exhibition Journeys with 'The Waste Land'.